Etching, a fine and rich impression pulled in reddish ink on thick wove paper. Signed in pencil bottom right Greppi. To the platemark 334 x 445 mm, the full sheet 448 x 559.
The etching is one of the 42 engraved by Greppi, commissioned by the Italian State, to illustrate the war industry in the First World War. The etchings were then printed and collected in the volume l'industria italiana per la guerra 1915-18 published in Milan in 1926. See another impression from the volume at the Bertarelli collection in Milan.
